Read full poem →that "S. J. Davies played in ane Epigrame on Draton's, who in a sonnet
concluded his mistress might been the Ninth [sic] Worthy; and said he
used a phrase like Dametas in Arcadia, who said, For wit his Mistresse
Dictionary Entry
The person or thing in the ninth position.
Origin
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Common Phrases
century ninthcircuit ninthgrade ninthday ninthyear ninth. ninthninth earlyninth late
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Poetry examples for “ninth”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →leaves, it so happened that he only filled up nine of them. But, after
adding _explicit_ at the bottom of the ninth leaf, to shew that he had come
to the end of his Chaucer, he thought it a pity to waste space, and so
Read full poem →Portrait of William H. Harrison, Ninth President of the United States .- 408
Read full poem →his heretical ambitiousness exemplary, and from the first page of his
laboured preface to the last page of his ninth appendix, his book con-
tains nothing unconsidered. Perhaps it may seem a little forbidding to
Read full poem →advertised in the _Morning Chronicle_, December 22, 1813), the date of
the last revise, or of an advance copy of the issue. The ninth, tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth editions belong to 1814, while a fourteenth
Read full poem →including two new poems_, _was published in September_, 1909. _Eighth
Edition_, _November_ 1909. _Ninth Edition_, _December_ 1909. _Tenth
Edition_, _December_ 1910. _Eleventh Edition_, _December_, 1911.
Read full poem →_1899_. _Eighth and Cheaper Edition_ (_1s. net_). _Methuen & Co._,
_Ltd._, _August 1910_. _Ninth Edition_, _September 1910_. ‘_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_’ _was published anonymously under the signature of C. 3.
Abt Vogler: After he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his inventionbyRobert Browning
Read full poem →Sliding by semitones, till I sink to the minor,--yes,
And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground,
Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep: